When Sylvester James Vandehei was born on 4 October 1885, in Sheboygan, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Peter M Vandehei, was 28 and his mother, Emma Lucena Palmer, was 30. He married Gertrude Marie Cox on 3 November 1909, in Ashton, Dane, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Marion, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States in 1905. He died on 11 September 1951, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
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